Who know what they are talking about, and point out that there is no evidence for DEWs. Target selectivity is just as easy for someone with a match. You have more evidence for witchcraft and spells.
DEWs? Of course. I saw the target engagement films in the 1970s. I designed and analyzed them and their target effects. Tell me something I don't know.
Styropyro? If he exists, there is no need for space-based DEWs. Probably as dangerous to himself as to any target. He would be the best debunk of this whole nutty space-based idea. Right up there with flamethrowers, phosphorus, and other art of the trade.
Except nothing. The Maui facility, as I stated, conducts research in ground-to-space atmospheric viewing---which is part of directed energy weapon research. But nothing to do with weapon system testing. They are probably exploiting "guidestar" lasers to develop adaptive optical systems for space viewing. There is no test range, and the atmospheric conditions are only favorable at the altitude where the base is located. Propagation at sea level is less desirable. And you cannot shoot a laser beam through an intervening hill or mountain.
That is not the only thing that the Maui facility does, by the way. It has a very large mission in the subject of telescopic observations of satellites.
I'm not impressed with second-hand commentary about this from those who are not in the field. I was in the field. The system-level development and testing is and has been conducted by the Air Force Weapons Laboratory at Kirtland AFB in Albuquerque, New Mexico, from the beginning. They have access to instrumented test ranges and they do take pot shots there. They have also done air-to-air beam experiments over decades. But nobody has been seriously interested in using lasers to promote arson. We have incendiary artillery for that job. A laser weapon is a valuable piece of equipment reserved for special purposes that only it can perform. (The weapons being developed are for anti-aircraft applications. They lock the beam on moving targets and point upwards. There's no way anything like this could depress and engage stationary land targets that are not military systems, and shooting from AMOS is a non-starter.)
Yes, but only because the "dews don't exist" shills hanging around
Who know what they are talking about, and point out that there is no evidence for DEWs. Target selectivity is just as easy for someone with a match. You have more evidence for witchcraft and spells.
Go watch styropyro. They indeed exist
DEWs? Of course. I saw the target engagement films in the 1970s. I designed and analyzed them and their target effects. Tell me something I don't know.
Styropyro? If he exists, there is no need for space-based DEWs. Probably as dangerous to himself as to any target. He would be the best debunk of this whole nutty space-based idea. Right up there with flamethrowers, phosphorus, and other art of the trade.
Except nothing. The Maui facility, as I stated, conducts research in ground-to-space atmospheric viewing---which is part of directed energy weapon research. But nothing to do with weapon system testing. They are probably exploiting "guidestar" lasers to develop adaptive optical systems for space viewing. There is no test range, and the atmospheric conditions are only favorable at the altitude where the base is located. Propagation at sea level is less desirable. And you cannot shoot a laser beam through an intervening hill or mountain.
That is not the only thing that the Maui facility does, by the way. It has a very large mission in the subject of telescopic observations of satellites.
I'm not impressed with second-hand commentary about this from those who are not in the field. I was in the field. The system-level development and testing is and has been conducted by the Air Force Weapons Laboratory at Kirtland AFB in Albuquerque, New Mexico, from the beginning. They have access to instrumented test ranges and they do take pot shots there. They have also done air-to-air beam experiments over decades. But nobody has been seriously interested in using lasers to promote arson. We have incendiary artillery for that job. A laser weapon is a valuable piece of equipment reserved for special purposes that only it can perform. (The weapons being developed are for anti-aircraft applications. They lock the beam on moving targets and point upwards. There's no way anything like this could depress and engage stationary land targets that are not military systems, and shooting from AMOS is a non-starter.)